Carol L. Jones Esq.

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Carol L. Jones joined Jill M. Metz & Associates in 2009 and focuses her practice primarily in litigation and family law. Carol has been appointed to the Illinois State Bar Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and is an invited member of the Family Law Institute, a select group of 125 attorneys from across the country working and advocating for LGBT clients in family law matters as a joint venture of the National LGBT Bar Association and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Carol is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, National LGBT Bar Association, and Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago.

Carol L. Jones is a 2003 Loyola University Chicago School of Law graduate, where she served as the news editor for the Loyola Consumer Law Review and staff editor for the Annals of Health Law. Carol published articles include Email Solicitation: Will Opening a “Spam-Free” Mailbox Ever Be a Reality? and The Unintended Consumer: Protecting Teen Drivers Through Graduating Licensing Laws. She secured a certificate in Tax Law from Loyola University and holds an M.A. in Bioethics from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her skills in negotiation, fact analysis, and attention to detail equip her to provide the highest level of service to those clients needing litigation services or settlement negotiations. Jill M. Metz & Associates, a law firm that protects the rights of those often underserved, has proven the ideal culture for Ms. Jones. She advocates on behalf of families, children and individuals, serving as a trusted, able advisor.

Areas of Practice

Litigation

Custody & Visitation

Divorce

Family Law

Guardianship

Probate

Bar Admissions

Illinois, 2003

Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois

J.D. - 2003

Honors: Certificate in Tax Law

Law Review: Consumer Law Review, News Editor, 2002 - 2003

Law Review: Consumer Law Review, Staff , 2001 - 2002

Law Review: Annals of Health Law, Staff Editor, 2001 - 2002

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

M.A. - 2000

Major: Bioethics

Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana

B.A. - 1997

Major: Communications and Religious Studies

Published Works

Email Solicitation: Will Opening a ?Spam-Free? Mailbox Ever Be a Reality?, Loyola Consumer Law Review Journal

Our attorneys represent clients in their residential and business communities - adoptions, estate planning, small business establishment and maintenance, relationship dissolutions, and probate. We serve as effective advocates at the negotiating table as well as in the courtroom.

We serve clients throughout Cook County, Illinois, including Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Uptown, from Rogers Park to Hegewisch and from Edgewater to Scottsdale, as well as the surrounding suburbs of Berwyn, Cicero, Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, from Northbrook to Calumet City, and from Oak Park to Schaumburg for all matters and throughout all of Illinois for adoptions and estate planning.